When Motor restaurant opened at the Harley-Davidson Museum a couple years ago, it had quality, but wasn't quite custom-built for speed. That changed when the restaurant souped things up with high-octane chef Travis Taylor, who was hired away from his job as a chef for NASCAR at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee.

Last month I wrote about a great pretzel I had at Cafe Centraal. Brian Miller -- of Miller Bakery -- saw that and brought over a box of pretzels for us to try. What he brought over were pretzel-shaped revelations and the oohs and aahs from the bedazzled OnMilwaukee.com staffers said it all.